Album of photographs of Nome during the Gold Rush, assembled

by John Lewis Beau 1863-1927 , owner and operator of the Beau Mercantile Company by Alaska, F. H. Nowell, E. A. Hegg, James

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Approx. 140 mounted silver print photographs by Nowell, Hegg, Goetze, Sciaroni and others, many depicting Indigenous peoples of Alaska, street and harbor scenes, boats and the operations of Beau Mercantile, mounted into a folio cloth ledger book, most captioned in manuscript. With approx. 10 mounted photographs on card, laid in, including a panorama of Teller City, dated September 20, 1900. And with a copy of Hegg's Souvenir of Nome Alaska Seattle: 1900 . Folio. Some images faded, but

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